Satiric

Definition: Satiric

Satiric

Adjective

1. Exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine".

Date "satiric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Satiric

Synonym: satirical (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Satiric

English words defined with "satiric": Archilochian ♦ clerihew. (references)

Etymologies containing "satiric": iambus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Satiric" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (lampoonist, mocking, satiric, satirical, satirically, satirist).

Domain	Title
Books	Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor (reference) Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington: From the Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Art (reference) Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage (reference) Listen to the Mockingbird: Satiric Songs to Tunes You Know (reference) Romantic poetry : a study in satiric strain (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cote D'ivoire	Among them, the most widely-read daily papers are "Fraternite Matin," controlled by the Ivoirian government and weeklies "Gbitch," a social satiric weekly magazine, and "Top Visage", a weekly specialized in show business and women's issues. (references)
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"Satiric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Satiric" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	23	72,767

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "satiric": satiric-epic.
	Ending with "satiric": comic-satiric.
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Language		Translations for "satiric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		satirik. (various references)

Arabic		‏متهكم (ironic, sarcastic), ‏هجائي. (various references)

Bulgarian		саркастичен (acerb, acerbic, epigrammatic, mordant, sarcastic, sarky, tart), сатиричен (send up, slashing). (various references)

Chinese		讽刺 (ironical, sarcasm, sarcastic, Sarcastical, satire, satirical). (various references)

Czech		satirický. (various references)

Finnish		satiirinen. (various references)

French		satirique (satirical). (various references)

German		satirisch (satirical). (various references)

Greek		σατυρικόσ (satyric). (various references)

Hungarian		szatirikus (satirical). (various references)

Italian		satirico (satirical, satirist). (various references)

Korean		�'�자 (sarcasm, satirical). (various references)

Pig Latin		atiricsay.(various references)

Portuguese		satírico (biting), relativo a sátira, que contém sátira. (various references)

Romanian		satiric (lampoonist, mocking, satirical, satirically, satirist), sarcastic (acrid, biting, caustic, caustically, cynical, lashing, mordacious, sarcastic, sarcastically, sardonic, severe, sharp, sneering, tart, taunting). (various references)

Russian		сатирический (satirical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		satiričan (satirical, spoof). (various references)

Spanish		satírico (lampooner, lampoonist, satirical, satirist, satyric, satyrical). (various references)

Swedish		satirisk. (various references)

Turkish		yergili, taşlamalı. (various references)

Ukranian		сатиричний, критичний (climacteric, critical, crucial). (various references)

Vietnamese		tr� o phúng thích châm biếm (satirical), châm biếm (ironic, ironical, sardonic, satirical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "satiric": satirical, satirically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Satiric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astarac, asturci, Asturica, matgigic, sadiki, sairi, sairis, sarinic, satira, Satirick, satori, saturniid, sericic, Shastric, soteric, stiri, stiric. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "satiric" (pronounced suti"rik)
4	-i" r i k	hemispheric, lyric, pyrrhic, stratospheric, vampiric.
3	-r i k	alphanumeric, anthropocentric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, cleric, concentric, Derrick, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, esoteric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, generic, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, metric, nitric, numeric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, rubric, sophomoric, stearic, sulfuric, tantric, vitric.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: crista, iatric, racist, triacs.
	-2 letters: airts, astir, carts, scart, sitar, stair, stria, tarsi, triac.
	-3 letters: acts, airs, airt, aits, arcs, arts, asci, cars, cart, cast, cats, cist, cris, iris, rats, rias, sari, sati, scar, scat, star, stir, tars, tics, tsar.
	-4 letters: act, air, ais, ait, arc, ars, art, car, cat, cis, its, ras, rat, ria, sac, sat, sic, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, tic, tis.
	-5 letters: ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: aoristic, artistic, carditis, rachitis, scimitar, triacids, triadics, tribasic.
	+2 letters: ahistoric, amoristic, archivist, armistice, artifices, charities, clarities, digastric, eristical, justiciar, orgiastic, parasitic, patristic, prismatic, psoriatic, racialist, raticides, raucities, realistic, satirical, scimitars, sybaritic, trichinas, victorias.
	+3 letters: accipiters, acerbities, acquisitor, acridities, alacrities, altruistic, anticaries, antiracism, antiracist, aphoristic, archaistic, archivists, armistices, arthritics, artificers, ascription, ascriptive, astricting, atrocities, aviatrices, camorristi, carditides, carditises, carnitines, ceramicist, chairlifts, cicatrices, cicatrixes, cicatrizes, clavierist, clostridia, criminates, cystinuria, diacritics, epigastric, erraticism, feracities, fricatives, geriatrics, historical, imbricates, inartistic, indicators, justiciars, laticifers, literacies, manicurist, matricides, mistracing, moralistic, morticians, mydriatics, narcissist, organicist, parodistic, patricians, patricides, patristics, pediatrics, pictorials, practising, psoriatics, rachitides, racialists, rapacities, recitalist, rickettsia, sacristies, sanctifier, scarcities, scriptoria, strabismic, tackifiers, tracheitis, triarchies, trichiases, trichiasis, triticales, ultraistic, unartistic, urbanistic, urticarias, varicosity, veracities, vicariants, vicariates, voracities.
	+4 letters: abstricting, acidimeters, acquisitors, ahistorical, aliteracies, anarchistic, ancientries, anisotropic, antiracisms, antiracists, arithmetics, ascriptions, bacitracins, cabinetries, carnalities, carotinoids, cartelising, cassiterite, casuistries, ceramicists, certainties, certioraris, charismatic, chiralities, chrismation, christiania, cirrostrati, clarinetist, clavierists, clericalist, clostridial, creatinines, creationism, creationist, criticaster, cystinurias, diastrophic, distracting, distraction, distractive, divaricates, eristically, erraticisms, eucharistic, formalistic, fratricides, gracilities, harmonicist, incinerates, infarctions, informatics, infractions, insectaries, interchains, intricacies, intrinsical, jargonistic, manicurists, manneristic, martensitic, mediatrices, miscreating, miscreation, myocarditis, narcissists, nonartistic, organicists, ostracising, ostracizing, paediatrics, parasitical, participles, patriciates, patristical, peristaltic, piscatorial, plasticizer, pluralistic, predacities, psychiatric, racialistic, rancidities, rascalities, recitalists, recitations, recitatives, recitativos, rickettsiae, rickettsial, rickettsias, ritualistic, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, rusticating, rustication, sanctifiers, satirically, scissortail, staurolitic, subcritical, thiouracils, timocracies, triplicates, trisyllabic, unchristian, unclarities, unrealistic, urtications, verbalistic, vindicators.
	+5 letters: accipitrines, accordionist, acidimetries, affricatives, anorthositic, anticipators, antihysteric, antipiracies, antipyretics, antistrophic, aoristically, apiculturist, aristocratic, articulacies, artistically, ascertaining, aviculturist, axisymmetric, bactericides, bacteriocins, bacteriurias, bifurcations, biquadratics, borosilicate, brachiations, brecciations, calibrations, cantharidins, capitularies, cardiologist, cardiotonics, caricaturist, carminatives, cassiterites, categorising, centralising, centralistic, centralities, certificates, charismatics, chrismations, christianias, chromaticism, circulations, clarinetists, clarinettist, clavieristic, clericalists, climacterics, commissariat, conciliators, consistorial, conspiration, constraining, containerise, contrariwise, cordialities, covariations, craniotomies, creationisms, creationists, creativities, crepitations, criminations, criticalness, criticasters, crossability, crystalizing, curabilities, diaphoretics, dichromatism, dictatorship, dictionaries, diffractions, discriminant, discriminate, distractible, distractions, doctrinaires, dominatrices, electricians, endocarditis, eradications, eviscerating, evisceration, excoriations, exorcistical, extrications, fabrications, facilitators, felicitators, fibroblastic, fornications, gastrocnemii, haircuttings, harmonicists, historically, iconolatries, illiteracies, imbrications, importancies, imprecations, incarnations, incinerators, incriminates, incrustation, incurvations, inheritances, interactions, interfacings, interspacing, intrapsychic, intraspecies, inveteracies, irascibility, isodiametric, itinerancies, jocularities, journalistic, judicatories, juristically, kickstarting, lacrimations, lectionaries, liberalistic, literalistic, lubrications, magistracies, matriarchies, mercantilism, mercantilist, meristematic, meristically, metrications, militaristic, misanthropic, miscreations, narcissistic, natriuretics, naturalistic, neorealistic, neutralistic, nonparasitic, nonrealistic, obstetrician, organicities, pacificators, pancreatitis, parasiticide, participants, participates, patriarchies, pericarditis, peripatetics, periphrastic, perspicacity, pertinacious, physiocratic, pictorialism, pictorialist, plagiaristic, plasticizers, plebiscitary, pragmaticism, pragmaticist, pragmatistic, precipitants, precipitates, prediabetics, predications, psychiatries, psychiatrist, purificators, puristically, radiochemist, ratiocinates, reactivities, recriminates, reifications, relativistic, replications, revivalistic, rhetoricians, rhizoctonias, romanticised, romanticises, romanticisms, romanticists, romanticizes, rubrications, rustications, saccharinity, scintigraphy, scintillator, scissortails, sectarianism, sectarianize, secularistic, secularities, semitropical, separatistic, sidetracking, solidaristic, surrealistic, tracheitises, transcribing, transiencies, transpacific, trierarchies, tropicalizes, tyrannicides, unhistorical, varicosities, vaticinators, vesicularity.
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